eyetie

eyetie
   ‘Fucking eyetie’ is addressed to an Italian by an Englishman in Shipmaster, by Gwyn Griffin. ‘Eyetie’ is used in British slang as an irreverent term for an Italian person. It is derived from the letters i and t, the first two letters of ‘Italian’, the t being pronounced wrongly as tie in order to make it rhyme with i.

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